Organization: Asian Disaster Preparedness Center
Registration deadline: 30 Jun 2017
Starting date: 17 Jul 2017
Ending date: 26 Jul 2017
COURSE OVERVIEW
Climate change and its impacts have become one of the most significant challenges of the 21stcentury. Climate-related risks, whether concurrent or prospective, need to be addressed swiftly as part of development strategies at all levels.
With population expansion and rapid industrialization in both developed and developing countries, policy-makers need to ensure resilience to the possible exacerbation of risks caused by hydro-meteorological hazards due to climate change. However, understanding the science of climate change and integrating adaption measures into development policies and practices has become a challenge for development and disaster risk reduction practitioners. Illustrating climate risk management in urban and rural settings and focusing on the sectoral challenges, ADPC's training course offers a unique opportunity for these professionals to enhance their knowledge, expertise, and skills on the topic.
The course participants will be guided through a series of interactive sessions that will enable them to acquire scientific knowledge to assess and strategically reduce climate risks. The aim of the course is to harmonize climate risk management, disaster risk reduction, and development planning into a holistic approach to sustainable development.
COURSE CONTENTS
Conducted over a period of eight days, the course is divided into six modules.
MODULE 1: Concepts and emerging directions of Climate Change and Climate Risk Management
MODULE 2: Climate change projections and decision support tools in Climate Risk Management
MODULE 3: Climate change and urban built systems
MODULE 4: Climate change and rural ecosystems
MODULE 5: Climate risk management planning and implementation
MODULE 6: Future knowledge applications and conclusions
*Note:*The contents are shown for general reference only. ADPC's ongoing course improvement process may lead to some changes in topics and structure.
How to register:
Everyone can register online at www.adpc.net/tsu/sign-in.asp.